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The World Cup final is set, with Messi and Argentina facing Yamal and Spain for the title on Sunday
The best offense. The best defense. The World Cup final is set, and fittingly, a clash of styles awaits. Lionel…
Seoul: North Korea blew up liaison office as tensions rise
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just inside its border in an act Tuesday that sharply raises tensions on the Korean Peninsula amid deadlocked nuclear diplomacy …
Texas set to resume executions after delay due to pandemic
HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas inmate condemned for fatally stabbing an 85-year-old woman more than two decades ago was scheduled to die by injection Tuesday, as the nation's busiest death penalty state prepared to resume …
AP News in Brief at 12:04 a.m. EDT
Trump signs order on police reform, doesn't mention racism
Black smoke billowing from cruise ship docked near Tokyo
TOKYO (AP) — Black smoke was billowing Tuesday from a cruise ship docked at a port near Tokyo as crewmembers and dozens of firefighters and coast guard personnel battled to control it.
Many businesses ask customers, workers to waive legal rights
WASHINGTON (AP) — As businesses reopen across the U.S. after coronavirus shutdowns, many are requiring customers and workers to sign forms saying they won’t sue if they catch COVID-19.
AP News in Brief at 11:04 p.m. EDT
Trump signs order on police reform, doesn't mention racism
Lottery State-by-State-All
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Maryland panel votes to remove Civil War plaque from Capitol
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Maryland panel voted Monday to remove a plaque from Maryland’s Capitol that honors the Civil War’s Union and Confederate soldiers and until recently showed the U.S. flag and Confederate flag…
Could the police shooting in Atlanta have been prevented?
It started off as routine: a man asleep in his car in a fast-food drive-thru. But it rapidly spun out of control when Atlanta police tried to handcuff and arrest Rayshard Brooks for being intoxicated.
Lottery State-by-State
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Pakistan briefly detains 2 Indian Embassy employees
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani police briefly detained two employees of the Indian Embassy in the capital Islamabad after their car hit and injured a pedestrian the previous day, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Tue…
US Forecast
US Forecast for Wednesday, June 17, 2020
'Still scared': Health workers feel the toll of virus fight
NEW YORK (AP) — Outside a back door to a hospital where the coronavirus hit like a hurricane, a half-dozen staffers gathered recently to look back, and look inward.
Could this latest police shooting have been prevented?
It started off as routine: a man asleep in his car in a fast-food drive-thru. But it rapidly spun out of control when Atlanta police tried to handcuff and arrest Rayshard Brooks for being intoxicated.
Hong Kong leader wants people to not 'demonize' security law
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday said she hoped that the opposition would not “demonize and stigmatize” the new national security law as doing do would mean pitting themselves against the peo…